EhCafe » Random Thoughts http://www.EhCafe.com Chit-chat about tech, life, and fun, eh? Thu, 06 May 2010 22:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Slow demise of yahoo.com http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/05/06/slow-demise-of-yahoo-com/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/05/06/slow-demise-of-yahoo-com/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 22:44:14 +0000 Mohamad http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=306 Ever since 2008, there has been a big decline in yahoo.com as a portal or as a search engine or even as a news aggregator. I don't think yahoo will survive any longer as a major portal on the net. Even the concept of a portal is growing old with the new age of social media. Unless it reinvents itself it is slowly going down. The quality of the site went down, the top news is mainly hollywood gossip connected with mediocre value. Apparently the news editor/algorithm is highly entertainment oriented. Check out BBC for example, it has a good balance of news categories. The most popular photos feature for instance are years old and very dysfunctional. Yahoo will be around, but it lost its commanding position and slowly receding in its net footprint.
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That's a big feat. Solaris, SPARC, MySQL, Java are now part of Oracle. 
]]> http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/02/04/oracle-acquires-sun/feed/ 0 The “Why didn’t I think of that Invention of the Year” http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/29/the-why-didn%e2%80%99t-i-think-of-that-invention-of-the-year/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/29/the-why-didn%e2%80%99t-i-think-of-that-invention-of-the-year/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:37:01 +0000 karaki http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=303 Introducing the dreamie:

https://www.buydreamie.com/

]]> http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/29/the-why-didn%e2%80%99t-i-think-of-that-invention-of-the-year/feed/ 0 Vizio VO400E 40″ LCD HDTV 1080 specs http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/03/vizio-vo400e-40-lcd-hdtv-1080-specs/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/03/vizio-vo400e-40-lcd-hdtv-1080-specs/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:46:51 +0000 arrabi http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=300

for some reason I couldn't find this TV specs anywhere on the net, so I thought I'd upload them myself. I bought it 1 week ago and I'm very happy with it.

]]> http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/12/03/vizio-vo400e-40-lcd-hdtv-1080-specs/feed/ 0 900 new housing settlements in East Jerusalem http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/11/17/900-new-housing-settlements-in-east-jerusalem/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2009/11/17/900-new-housing-settlements-in-east-jerusalem/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:55:14 +0000 Mohamad http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=299 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8364815.stm
"A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the planning approval was "yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace"."
Arab 'leaders': Oh really! what can we do?!
- Nothing, as usual!
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